Barney Stinson

Barnabas "Barney" Stinson is a fictional character portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris and created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas for the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother. One of the main characters, Barney is a womanizer who uses many 'plays' in his 'playbook' to help him have sex with women. The character is known for his love of wearing expensive suits, laser tag, alcohol and various catchphrases, including "Suit up!", "Legendary", "Wait for it" (often combining the two as "legen—wait for it—dary!"), and "Daddy's home". In later seasons, he has a few serious relationships, marries, divorces, and has a child with an unnamed woman from a one-night stand.

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But I just don't like the idea that Barney and Robin divorced three years later, only for Robin to be with Ted after his wife passed away. The character development has gone to waste, and the "Ted loves Robin" subject feels very trite and unreasonable to a lot of viewers who were already accustomed to "Barney Loves Robin" after the initial couple breaks up. Team Barney foists to us that it will stand solid throughout most of the last few seasons, only in the series final for it to crumble before everyone's eyes. The ending's very bittersweet so it's preferable to have it open-ended.